History, Milestones and Earth Shaking Events

The early years

1986 Marco Börries founds StarDivision after the first version of StarWriter was released in 1985
1990 Development site moves to Hamburg
1995 The release of StarOffice 3.0 marks a milestone in the development. It was a complete redesign of former programmes as a cross-platform office suite for Windows, OS/2 and Solaris Sparc directly competing with Microsoft Office 95. This is the oldest code that is still inside OpenOffice.org
1999 Sun Microsystems, Inc., buys StarDivision